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cHARLEs RIELE, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOLDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters` Patent-No. 289,606, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed September 26, 1883. (Model.) v

To all whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BIELE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moldings, of which the following is a specication.

This invention has reference to the manufacture of ornamental moldings for show-cases and other articles.

Figure 1 is a front view' of my improved molding, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same on line a; fr, Fig. 1. 1

-Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

a a represent panels, which are formed of motherofpearl, and cemented to the face of a molding, b, of a suitable'crossssection. The molding bis made of wood or other suitable material, and when of larger size made of several connected sections. After the panels of.

different shapes have been cemented to the face of the molding according to a certain design, they are ground off on their faces to a uniform thickness, and also at their meeting edges, so as to form proper joints with the adjoining sections of the molding. If the molding is composed of several sections, they are connected by a tongue-andgroove joint, dovetails, mortises, and tenons, or in any other suitable manner.

Y Moldings which are faced in this manner with mother-of-pearl can be made in different artistic designs, and impart thereby a very ornamental effectrto the showcases, frames, or other articles for which they are used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent- The article of manufacture herein described, consisting of amoldinghaving polygonal faces covered with panels of mother-of-pearl, the meeting edges of the panels being beveled.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GH ARLES F. BIELE.

Witnesses:

`PAUL GoEPEL, SIDNEY MANN. 

